Lasting Impressions

Our Readers' Best Photographs of the Year

Once again, it's time to show off our readers' best photographs from the past year. Contributors to the Personal Journeys page of The Sun's Travel Section set out in all directions in 2001, and they came back with plenty of great pictures.

Readers submitted photos from as close by as the Eastern Shore and the Outer Banks and from as far away as Zambia and French Polynesia. Some of the images on this page and inside the section are thoughtful, some are playful and some are simply beautiful.

And although the world of travel has been profoundly changed by events of Sept. 11, our readers' continued enthusiasm suggests that for many of them, 2002 will be full of travel adventures -- and more great pictures.